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Sugar Grove MusicFest will bring two folk legends together
again: The Kruger Brothers and Doc Watson.

According to guitarist Uwe Kruger, Doc Watson is the reason
they started playing folk music. His mother taught a boy in kindergarten whose
father taught English at a college using American folk records. Kruger was
eleven when he first heard Doc Watson’s music.

The brothers were soon hooked- and even though the records
took about a year to reach their home town in Switzerland, they knew Doc Watson
was worth the wait.

The Kruger Brothers began performing professionally in 1973
and have appeared regularly in the United States since 1997. Since 2003, they
have been proud to call North Carolina their home.

"We always felt that where this kind of music was played, it must be a very happy place," Kruger said. Upon moving here- Kruger discovered that to be a fact.

What does Doc Watson think of the Krugers?

He calls them "good fellows."

The Kruger Brothers, Uwe on guitar and Jens on banjo, are
joined by bassist Joel Landsberg.It’s
a mesh of traditional American Folk and Bluegrass music with Classical European
influences.